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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pci.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/video.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt | 81 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl | 4 |
8 files changed, 100 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 6c9e746267d..915ae8c986c 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -603,7 +603,8 @@ start exactly where you are now. ---------- -Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi who allowed the "Development Process" section +Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi who allowed the "Development Process" +(http://linux.tar.bz/articles/2.6-development_process) section to be based on text he had written, and to Randy Dunlap and Gerrit Huizenga for some of the list of things you should and should not say. Also thanks to Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Randy Dunlap, Kay Sievers, diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5fa130a6753 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the +IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible, +for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but +set a specific device to use the anticipatory or noop schedulers - which +can improve that device's throughput). + +To set a specific scheduler, simply do this: + +echo SCHEDNAME > /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler + +where SCHEDNAME is the name of a defined IO scheduler, and DEV is the +device name (hda, hdb, sga, or whatever you happen to have). + +The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing +a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names +will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets: + +# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler +noop anticipatory deadline [cfq] +# echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler +# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler +noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 293fed113df..421bcfff6ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER -When: January 2006 +What: drivers that were depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER + (config options already removed) +When: before 2.6.19 Why: OSS drivers with ALSA replacements Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index c8bce82ddca..89b1d196ca8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ class/ devices/ firmware/ net/ +fs/ devices/ contains a filesystem representation of the device tree. It maps directly to the internal kernel device tree, which is a hierarchy of @@ -264,6 +265,10 @@ drivers/ contains a directory for each device driver that is loaded for devices on that particular bus (this assumes that drivers do not span multiple bus types). +fs/ contains a directory for some filesystems. Currently each +filesystem wanting to export attributes must create its own hierarchy +below fs/ (see ./fuse.txt for an example). + More information can driver-model specific features can be found in Documentation/driver-model/. diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index 711210b38f5..66bbbf1d1ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -259,7 +259,17 @@ on the bus need to be capable of doing it, so this is something which needs to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers. -8. Obsolete functions +8. Vendor and device identifications +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +For the future, let's avoid adding device ids to include/linux/pci_ids.h. + +PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx for vendors, and a hex constant for device ids. + +Rationale: PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx constants are re-used, but device ids are not. + Further, device ids are arbitrary hex numbers, normally used only in a + single location, the pci_device_id table. + +9. Obsolete functions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are several functions which you might come across when trying to port an old driver to the new PCI interface. They are no longer present diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt index d18a57d1a53..43a889f8f08 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/video.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ IBM TP T41p s3_bios (2), switch to X after resume IBM TP T42 s3_bios (2) IBM ThinkPad T42p (2373-GTG) s3_bios (2) IBM TP X20 ??? (*) -IBM TP X30 s3_bios (2) +IBM TP X30 s3_bios, s3_mode (4) IBM TP X31 / Type 2672-XXH none (1), use radeontool (http://fdd.com/software/radeon/) to turn off backlight. IBM TP X32 none (1), but backlight is on and video is trashed after long suspend. s3_bios,s3_mode (4) works too. Perhaps that gets better results? IBM Thinkpad X40 Type 2371-7JG s3_bios,s3_mode (4) diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt index 4692c8e77dc..b535c2a198f 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audiophile-Usb.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Guide to using M-Audio Audiophile USB with ALSA and Jack v1.2 + Guide to using M-Audio Audiophile USB with ALSA and Jack v1.3 ======================================================== Thibault Le Meur <Thibault.LeMeur@supelec.fr> @@ -22,16 +22,16 @@ The device has 4 audio interfaces, and 2 MIDI ports: * Midi In (Mi) * Midi Out (Mo) -The internal DAC/ADC has the following caracteristics: +The internal DAC/ADC has the following characteristics: * sample depth of 16 or 24 bits * sample rate from 8kHz to 96kHz -* Two ports can't use different sample depths at the same time.Moreover, the +* Two ports can't use different sample depths at the same time. Moreover, the Audiophile USB documentation gives the following Warning: "Please exit any audio application running before switching between bit depths" Due to the USB 1.1 bandwidth limitation, a limited number of interfaces can be activated at the same time depending on the audio mode selected: - * 16-bit/48kHz ==> 4 channels in/ 4 channels out + * 16-bit/48kHz ==> 4 channels in/4 channels out - Ai+Ao+Di+Do * 24-bit/48kHz ==> 4 channels in/2 channels out, or 2 channels in/4 channels out @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ activated at the same time depending on the audio mode selected: Important facts about the Digital interface: -------------------------------------------- - * The Do port additionnaly supports surround-encoded AC-3 and DTS passthrough, -though I haven't tested it under linux + * The Do port additionally supports surround-encoded AC-3 and DTS passthrough, +though I haven't tested it under Linux - Note that in this setup only the Do interface can be enabled * Apart from recording an audio digital stream, enabling the Di port is a way to synchronize the device to an external sample clock @@ -60,24 +60,23 @@ synchronization error (for instance sound played at an odd sample rate) The Audiophile USB MIDI ports will be automatically supported once the following modules have been loaded: * snd-usb-audio - * snd-seq * snd-seq-midi -No additionnal setting is required. +No additional setting is required. 2.2 - Audio ports ----------------- Audio functions of the Audiophile USB device are handled by the snd-usb-audio module. This module can work in a default mode (without any device-specific -parameter), or in an advanced mode with the device-specific parameter called +parameter), or in an "advanced" mode with the device-specific parameter called "device_setup". 2.2.1 - Default Alsa driver mode -The default behaviour of the snd-usb-audio driver is to parse the device +The default behavior of the snd-usb-audio driver is to parse the device capabilities at startup and enable all functions inside the device (including -all ports at any sample rates and any sample depths supported). This approach +all ports at any supported sample rates and sample depths). This approach has the advantage to let the driver easily switch from sample rates/depths automatically according to the need of the application claiming the device. @@ -114,9 +113,9 @@ gain). For people having this problem, the snd-usb-audio module has a new module parameter called "device_setup". -2.2.2.1 - Initializing the working mode of the Audiohile USB +2.2.2.1 - Initializing the working mode of the Audiophile USB -As far as the Audiohile USB device is concerned, this value let the user +As far as the Audiophile USB device is concerned, this value let the user specify: * the sample depth * the sample rate @@ -174,20 +173,20 @@ The parameter can be given: IMPORTANT NOTE WHEN SWITCHING CONFIGURATION: ------------------------------------------- - * You may need to _first_ intialize the module with the correct device_setup + * You may need to _first_ initialize the module with the correct device_setup parameter and _only_after_ turn on the Audiophile USB device * This is especially true when switching the sample depth: - - first trun off the device - - de-register the snd-usb-audio module - - change the device_setup parameter (by either manually reprobing the module - or changing modprobe.conf) + - first turn off the device + - de-register the snd-usb-audio module (modprobe -r) + - change the device_setup parameter by changing the device_setup + option in /etc/modprobe.conf - turn on the device 2.2.2.3 - Audiophile USB's device_setup structure If you want to understand the device_setup magic numbers for the Audiophile USB, you need some very basic understanding of binary computation. However, -this is not required to use the parameter and you may skip thi section. +this is not required to use the parameter and you may skip this section. The device_setup is one byte long and its structure is the following: @@ -231,11 +230,11 @@ Caution: 2.2.3 - USB implementation details for this device -You may safely skip this section if you're not interrested in driver +You may safely skip this section if you're not interested in driver development. -This section describes some internals aspect of the device and summarize the -data I got by usb-snooping the windows and linux drivers. +This section describes some internal aspects of the device and summarize the +data I got by usb-snooping the windows and Linux drivers. The M-Audio Audiophile USB has 7 USB Interfaces: a "USB interface": @@ -277,9 +276,9 @@ Here is a short description of the AltSettings capabilities: - 16-bit depth, 8-48kHz sample mode - Synch playback (Do), audio format type III IEC1937_AC-3 -In order to ensure a correct intialization of the device, the driver +In order to ensure a correct initialization of the device, the driver _must_know_ how the device will be used: - * if DTS is choosen, only Interface 2 with AltSet nb.6 must be + * if DTS is chosen, only Interface 2 with AltSet nb.6 must be registered * if 96KHz only AltSets nb.1 of each interface must be selected * if samples are using 24bits/48KHz then AltSet 2 must me used if @@ -290,7 +289,7 @@ _must_know_ how the device will be used: is not connected When device_setup is given as a parameter to the snd-usb-audio module, the -parse_audio_enpoint function uses a quirk called +parse_audio_endpoints function uses a quirk called "audiophile_skip_setting_quirk" in order to prevent AltSettings not corresponding to device_setup from being registered in the driver. @@ -317,9 +316,8 @@ However you may see the following warning message: using the "default" ALSA device. This is less efficient than it could be. Consider using a hardware device instead rather than using the plug layer." - 3.2 - Patching alsa to use direct pcm device -------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------- A patch for Jack by Andreas Steinmetz adds support for Big Endian devices. However it has not been included in the CVS tree. @@ -331,3 +329,32 @@ After having applied the patch you can run jackd with the following command line: % jackd -R -dalsa -Phw:1,0 -r48000 -p128 -n2 -D -Chw:1,1 +3.2 - Getting 2 input and/or output interfaces in Jack +------------------------------------------------------ + +As you can see, starting the Jack server this way will only enable 1 stereo +input (Di or Ai) and 1 stereo output (Ao or Do). + +This is due to the following restrictions: +* Jack can only open one capture device and one playback device at a time +* The Audiophile USB is seen as 2 (or three) Alsa devices: hw:1,0, hw:1,1 + (and optionally hw:1,2) +If you want to get Ai+Di and/or Ao+Do support with Jack, you would need to +combine the Alsa devices into one logical "complex" device. + +If you want to give it a try, I recommend reading the information from +this page: http://www.sound-man.co.uk/linuxaudio/ice1712multi.html +It is related to another device (ice1712) but can be adapted to suit +the Audiophile USB. + +Enabling multiple Audiophile USB interfaces for Jackd will certainly require: +* patching Jack with the previously mentioned "Big Endian" patch +* patching Jackd with the MMAP_COMPLEX patch (see the ice1712 page) +* patching the alsa-lib/src/pcm/pcm_multi.c file (see the ice1712 page) +* define a multi device (combination of hw:1,0 and hw:1,1) in your .asoundrc + file +* start jackd with this device + +I had no success in testing this for now, but this may be due to my OS +configuration. If you have any success with this kind of setup, please +drop me an email. diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl index 68eeebc17ff..1faf76383ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ } /* PCI IDs */ - static struct pci_device_id snd_mychip_ids[] = { + static struct pci_device_id snd_mychip_ids[] __devinitdata = { { PCI_VENDOR_ID_FOO, PCI_DEVICE_ID_BAR, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0, }, .... @@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ <informalexample> <programlisting> <![CDATA[ - static struct pci_device_id snd_mychip_ids[] = { + static struct pci_device_id snd_mychip_ids[] __devinitdata = { { PCI_VENDOR_ID_FOO, PCI_DEVICE_ID_BAR, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0, }, .... |